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apt_install_coffee@lemmy.mltoADHD@lemmy.ml•I threw up when I took Trintellix at 4:00 AM EST this morning. I'm off the Vyvanse and Abilify. Oh, and my psychiatrist sucks. A little help here?
2·14 days agoIf you don’t trust your psychiatrist, you absolutely should find a different one if you can.
Having said that, from what I can tell the use of Vyvance and Abilify together is relatively common due to comorbitities in what the are typically treating. The combination side effects seem to range from relatively mild, to rare, but I am not a doctor nor do I use Abilify.
If you cannot get another psychiatrist’s opinion, perhaps ask your dispensing pharmacist about combination risks, they are the next most likely to know about this.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Is musl libc still not suitable for workstations?
3·27 days agoThe line between what is a hack and what is basic performance optimisation is both subject to taste and use-case. Horses for courses, right?
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Is musl libc still not suitable for workstations?
2·27 days agoIt does, I quite like mimalloc though I prefer to have programs compiled with their custom allocator rather than inserting them via LD_PRELOAD as I’ve found some issues when using it with programs like Firefox.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Is musl libc still not suitable for workstations?
13·28 days agoSaying musl is preferable if speed is important is a bit…loaded. It’s not always untrue, but it often is.
As a libc, musl has a much smaller footprint than glibc, so a computer which is short on memory capacity, memory bandwidth, or cache size could absolutely see a performance benefit. The flipside to this is that a lot of the ‘bloat’ in glibc are performance tricks including lots of architecture specific code.
As others have mentioned, the malloc implementation is less than ideal and can slow down highly threaded & memory intensive applications.
I work on a musl-based embedded distribution for my day-job, and also quite like using it personally for arm boards and my old ThinkPad. I wouldn’t really use it for my workstation though.
As far as applications working with musl, it’s not uncommon to see glibc-specific code which would need to be patched out of some applications (systemd comes to mind).
apt_install_coffee@lemmy.mltoAccessibility@lemmy.ml•I bought myself a new keyboard with Christmas money, and after just a day of using it, I'm honestly kind of stunned by how much of a difference it's making.
2·1 month agoFor a tool that is so generic by default, I was surprised at how deeply personal a keyboard really is once you start to realise what you want.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Transferring data from Windows to Linux during migration
3·2 months agoStart with a portable hard drive which only has one job “store a copy of your critical data”.
- move the drive as infrequently as possible, especially when it’s turned on.
- only ever write to it when you do your periodic backup.
- only plug it in when you need to read from or write to it.
It’s a paranoid set of rules, but if this data is critical, this is a good idea. Even better is to have an additional copy of that data in cloud storage.
As far as operating system, you absolutely can use a Linux machine, but learning a new system risks you accidentally deleting data so be careful. Linux has ways of reading windows-formatted hard drives, so as much as I prefer Linux, I would say don’t try new things on the machine which hold critical data.
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Piracy@lemmy.ml•Probably avoid Tailscale with MullvadEnglish
1·2 months agoFair enough, I also would have expected tailscale to set itself as the default route when those options are enabled.
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Piracy@lemmy.ml•Probably avoid Tailscale with MullvadEnglish
1·2 months agoWhat are your route & dns settings? I don’t remember if tailscale forces all DNS queries to go via it’s tunnel, but I remember that the mullvad client uses DNS hijacking to make sure the device uses the wireguard tunnel.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What will a post US empire world look like?
2·2 months agoIn the short (next couple lifetimes) term, the US will continue receding from different geopolitical arenas, followed by some political jostling to change that region’s power balance.
As the empire shrinks, the politics of scarcity will become more pervasive, entrenching clientelism and mistrust in an already fairly low-trust society.
It’s not a hot take to say that mask-off fascism is on the menu given how fascism-shaped the US is, but given how autocanibalistic this particular right wing wave is, I have no idea what to expect.
Don’t know whether the new boss will be the same as the old boss; while India and China don’t seem particularly empire-inclined, few countries do until they’re the one with the biggest stick. Both have been drumming up nationalism internally for the last decade, so if they can’t defuse it safely they’ll point it at each other, to everybody’s detriment.
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Linux@lemmy.world•need help creating a package manager in c#English
2·2 months agoI recommend starting with basic operations, like:
- putting installed files in the right directory structure.
- integrity checking.
- archiving and compressing.
Decide whether your package manager is source-based, or if you’re going to make some kind of binary distribution mechanism. Either way, you’re going to need a process for configuring, compiling and installing packages from source.
I do recommend looking at how Pacman, & apt approach all this. There are also likely books on this topic.
Also recommend playing around with buildroot; not because it is a comprehensive package manager, but because it’s inner workings are very transparent.
apt_install_coffee@lemmy.mltoquotes@lemmy.ml•For those leftists who always feel superior to the proletariat
5·2 months agoI regularly think about two phases I’ve heard:
- “The smarter you are, the better you get at rationalising bad decisions”
- “advertising/propaganda works best when you are certain it doesn’t work on you.”
I feel like they remind me that when it comes to making choices & being duped, intelligence is mostly irrelevant.
My belief is that on an individual level, the counter to propaganda is both free time to ruminate on what we believe, and a strong network of people we trust who are willing to challenge us on the things we say and do. Two things which an atomized and overworked society looses at all levels.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•[SOLVED] How do I fixed my borked BIOS screen?
1·2 months agoRegarding the solution: does 1.4 work fine once you’re in the OS?
Is this on a fresh install, or have you installed a Wayland DE on an existing distro? If so, you may be missing some packages. What DE are you using for both X and Wayland?
I’m surprised wlr-randr is missing a display that xrandr can see, they should be looking at the same place for the display info. If you hunt through dmesg do you see any errors related to “EDID”?
It’s important to remember that the actions of the working class are primarily derived from their class interests, not because individuals are dicks. Humanizing even shitty individuals is an important part of persuading people away from thinking in terms of individual people and more about the dialectics of class.
Buy a second hand laptop or computer. Lots of companies sell off their tech shit after 3 years, and they have at least a good decade of use in them.
Look at what models are super popular second hand like ThinkPads; you’ll be able to find replacement parts pretty easily.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why isn't police mental health a concern?
2·3 months agoAbsolutely, the fact that every time you interact with a person it could be on the worst day of their lives, but for you it’s just Tuesday is a massive contributor to mental health issues. Being unable to talk about it makes things much worse, and while the ethos like ‘killology’ and similar might cops less traumatized by their jobs it is definitely for the worse.
The amount of othering I hear from cops who talk about the people they interact with in their jobs… Well let’s just say I’ve never heard a cop talk about their job and go “boy am I glad that person is on the force”, and it definitely seems like at least partly a coping mechanism.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why isn't police mental health a concern?
161·3 months agoI think there are a few reasons, firstly while conservatives put many issues within society under a mental health umbrella, they simultaneously make no efforts to fix this problem and in fact actively make it worse since poor housing access, wealth inequality, healthcare access, food access etc are all major factors for pretty much all mental health issues. There are only a few explanations I can come up with for this:
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‘mental health’ is a smokescreen; it’s an umbrella so vague and monumental an issue that it gets put in the “I can’t affect this problem, so there is no point in worrying” basket.
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People with mental health issues are so othered to them that their solution to people with mental health issues is “a cop with a gun”.
As for cop’s mental health, that’s a bit easier:
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I can’t speak for other countries, but where I’m from if a cop gets diagnosed with pretty much any acronym they risk getting their gun taken off them which directly restricts the jobs they can take and their career advancement. Where I’m from won’t even take on a recruit if they’ve been diagnosed with something. This means cops are terrified of taking any work provided therapy.
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pretty much all police orgs have a really bad machismo problem, which is one thing that keeps men from seeking mental healthcare in general.
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police tend not to require much formal education to start training and tend to pay better than other jobs with the same starting requirement (moral hazard pay), this can lead to the ‘golden handcuffs’ situation of not wanting to jeopardize this career because you’ll have to start at the bottom for a career which pays worse.
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it’s very common for society to see police as ‘essential workers’, which puts it under the umbrella of “we can make your work conditions terrible”; things like shift-work with really unpredictable hours tends to isolate people from their friends and family, making mental health worse and makes them more reliant on their job for their support network.
Reforming the police a tolerable institution seems impossible to me, but a decent start would be disarming them and making sure they are not the people who respond to mental health calls. Problem is that this requires a large part of the population to accept that you can’t simply shoot your problems, even if you hire a goon in blue to do it.
Regarding the US and their gun ownership: yeah, disarming cops is a lot more complicated and probably involves training them about de-escalation and the peelians. It also requires setting up some aptitude requirements, since basics like “time, distance & cover” are regularly forgone in favour of “warrior cop”, and currently there is a very strong pipeline from “that kid who tortures animals” to “corporal”.
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Mechanical Keyboards@lemmy.ml•What are the different kinds of pins on a microcontroller for? And, how do you fit a microcontroller onto a crowded PCB?
2·4 months agoI was halfway through a message about return path impedance, but remembered the pico is a carrier board with its ground built in it’s USB connector, and the switches are hardly going to care.
My bad, you’ll be fine 👍

Any SBCs with K3 yet? I’ve got a K1 but wouldn’t mind something with RVA23